Monthly Archive for October, 2011

: October, 2011

The Packers-Vikings rivalry is a heated one. Well, one Viking’s act on Sunday may have kicked it up a notch, so to speak. When he was on the ground after a field goal attempt, Vikings defensive end Brian Robinson intentionally kicked Packer T.J. Lang right in the crotch. Robinson was flagged 15 yards for unsportsmanlike […] …

In one of the most amazing streaker moves you’ll ever see, a fan dressed in an official’s uniform ran into the middle of the field in the final seconds of the first half of the Arizona-UCLA nationally televised game on Thursday night. He actually blew the play dead before the snap, then took off down […] …

The last moments of Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi’s life were apparently captured on a camera phone just before he was killed Thursday in his hometown of Sirte. The jerky, graphic footage, being broadcast on Al Jazeera, shows a bloodied and dazed man slumping against a truck, surrounded by cheering men with guns. The Associated Press […] …

Steve Jobs refused a surgery that could have saved his life, his biographer said in a 60 Minutes interview. The Apple CEO died earlier this month after a long fight with pancreatic cancer. Some have speculated that Jobs could have lived longer had he sought the treatment of modern medicine, but this is the first time […] …

Today in “Who could’ve possibly thought this was a good idea?” news, the Lingerie Football League has announced plans to develop a youth league for girls. The organization wrote about the “need” for it on their website: “With the growing popularity around the LFL, younger and younger girls are starting to dream of playing LFL […] …

Running back Jerome Harrison needed only to pass a standard physical exam before his trade from the Detroit Lions to the Philadelphia Eagles was complete. He failed. But the attempted trade may have saved Harrison’s life. According to ESPN.com’s Adam Schefter, Eagles doctors found a brain tumor while performing the physical, which would not have […] …

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was sitting down for an on-camera interview when an aide handed her a smartphone with some exciting news: Moammar Gadhafi had been captured. “Wow,” she said before handing the phone back. We can only imagine how she reacted when she later learned that Gadhafi was dead. …

The 30 Rock actor wasn’t cracking jokes during a two-hour trip to see the Occupy Wall Street protesters in Zuccotti Park Tuesday night. Instead, Alec Baldwin got into debates over the Federal Reserve with protestors who wanted to school him on the bank (and why they thought it should be closed). “I’m aware of what […] …

The creepy fish pictured below might seem like a Halloween hoax, but rest (un)assured…the photos are 100% real. As reported by National Geographic, marine biologists in Mexico have confirmed that the strange creature is indeed a rare “cyclops shark.” The shark was discovered by an unsuspecting fisherman, who cut the one-eyed fetus from the belly of a […] …

In the same year that saw the birth of American author Jack London, the induction of Colorado as the 38th U.S. state, and the presidential election in which Rutherford B. Hayes defeated Samuel Tilden; another American legacy was simultaneously sprouting up in the gardens of Illinois. James Boyle’s great-great-grandmother’s garden played host to what has […] …

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